I get it, I’m the introvert too, but it helps to understand where they are coming from…

For them, these inane conversations are likely their pressure/stress release. Medical gigs can be pretty high pressure and everyone reacts to that differently.

I’ve only witnessed it from the patient side, but I get where it’s coming from.

When I had my first heart attack, it was just after Thanksgiving and the cardiac ward was decorated for Thanksgiving. They had these “Guess the heart rythm” charts made out of tinsel, and I got to see them all as I walked the ward after surgery.

(Bonus, immediately after open heart surgery they make you get up and walk around multiple times a day.)

The chart right by the nurses station? I wish I had taken a photo of it… tinsel flatline ending in an angel. LOL.